Re: FW: Suggestion on tools to create and organize PROV-based provenances

Hi Paolo

You can point them to the Southampton provenance tool suite:
https://provenance.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
with ProvStore, validator, and a prov-n editor.

Luc

On 04/02/15 21:39, Paolo Missier wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> A request from a collaborator — a climate scientist at Oak Ridge Nat Lab.
>
> I believe PROV-N is as friendly a “UI” for writing PROV as it gets, 
> but some of you may be aware of other user tools?
>
> Thanks! -Paolo
>
>
> On 03/02/2015 16:39, "Wei, Yaxing" <weiy@ornl.gov 
> <mailto:weiy@ornl.gov>> wrote:
>
>     Could you please give us some suggestions on easy-to-use tools to
>     create and organize PROV-based provenances?
>
>     The ORNL DAAC have been archiving a lot of soil data products
>     since 20 years ago. Soil data products are related with each
>     other. Older soil data was usually combined with more newer
>     samples to get improved soil data. So it will be very useful to
>     construct the lineage for past and present soil data products.
>     Data users will have a better understanding of these data and it
>     will be easier for them to choose what they need. We have started
>     the work and created some charts in PowerPoint. These charts are
>     quite simple, with data nodes and processing nodes and lines
>     connecting them. I believe this will be a perfect exercise for
>     converting these charts into PROV-based provenances. But we don’t
>     know if there is any tool that’s mature and simple enough so that
>     we can easily create, manage, and analyze PROV provenances. I know
>     ProvExplorer that Sauman was working on, but that’s only a
>     visualization tool I guess. You can assume we don’t know anything
>     about Ontology, RDF, or PROV. I’m thinking a tool with friendly
>     user interface for domain scientists to use. Thank you.
>
>     Best,
>
>     Yaxing
>
>
>
>
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